Will they have border inspections for Big Screens like they have for fruits/vegetables (California Border Protection Stations (BPS))? 
Posted on 10/16/2009 12:32:57 PM PDT by Marty62
I’m always heartened to learn the spelling police are on their game.
We should get about 1 million adults to go to Sacramento, dawn diapers, suck our thumbs, and stand out side the capital building demanding the state take over every aspect of our lives, in sarcasm.
The irony of it would be lost on many, but the visual would be something the media couldn’t help but cover, and the message would be so clear as to make the leftists absolutely furious.
White baby bonnets
White diapers
Bare Feet
Sucking thumbs
Big lollipops with different government programs printed on the side exposed to the cameras
Baby bottles with big government programs on them as well
On the fringe people could hand out fliers that say something like...
Please urge the state government to pass more gun control laws in addition to the thousands already on the books
Please urge the state to pass more seat belt laws
Please urge the state to pass more cell phone laws
Please urge the state to let prisoners go free
Please urge the state to raise our taxes
Please urge the state to...
Man this is fertile ground...
I can see it now. If this legislation passes, the wacko environmentalists will want to set up CHP checkpoints on I-40 and I-15 to stop all motorists and search for bootlegged big-screen TVs...lol. This legislation is totally unnecessary because the power consumption of TVs (and computers, appliances, etc.) is continually declining as technology improves.
“And in the winter, the heat will be a boon not a bane.”
Exactly.
Yeah and we banned incandescent light bulbs before anyone else.
We are soooo screwed
Just remember that capital punishment is never carried out in a capitol.
What’s more, we hear how this nation cannot have these things (or AC) anymore because they are “bad” for the environment and cause global climate change. Except now the rest of the world is finanlly ramping up to using cars (China and India) and rather than starting with the new “greener” technologies, they are using the same technologies that we can no longer use (got to get off of oil).
It isn’t about the environment or even scarcity of resources. The damned socialists have said for 40 years that “we consume too much of the world’s resources”, we have to do without.
We will have crappy low flow toilet, weak showerheads, no more control of our thermostats, and whatever size tv the government mandates.
It is unAmerican.
OK sooooo...
It’s a way of making a CA based company richer, by forcing eveyone to buy a NEW TV to comply with the STATE REGS. Ah yes, bend over everyone. Ca is geting ready to...... you fill in the blanks.
Will they have border inspections for Big Screens like they have for fruits/vegetables (California Border Protection Stations (BPS))?
Actually, once it's illegal to buy them in-state the neighboring states will begin to ask for an ID to make sure they aren't violating some other law. At least that's what happened when buying oil-based paints was virtually banned several years ago.
Keep buying bigger and bigger screens.
They are "the ruling class".
"Rules" don't apply to them.
From trendsetter .. to laughingstock
sigh
I remember reading last year (or earlier this year) that the MA state legislature was exploring ways to levy sales tax on items purchases made by MA residents in NH. How they were going to do that, was anyone's guess. But, I don't put anything past liberals when collecting taxes.
Did you see that story and do you know if it actually went anyplace?
Another thing to consider, California has a billion dollar industry in motion pictures. They want to see people GO to the movies and not watch them at home.
Eradicating home theaters is one way to accomplish this goal.
I did that to may stores in the late 70’s and 80’s. Profit ya know. Started it to save energy costs so I could keep my employees.
Won’t happen.
The elitists will inherently have a different set of rules.
So does that mean no more GIANT TV at the football stadium?
That’s fine when you choose it.
That’s not so fine when you force everybody else to choose it.
That’s probably true, but the Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean companies that make most TVs seem to be dedicated to improving their products in all ways and reducing power consumption even if consumers don’t demand it right now. Power consumption of consumer electronics keeps declining because these Asian companies think years ahead and they know improved energy efficiency is the right thing to do for their companies in the long run. So my conclusion is these regulations are a totally unnecessary response to a nonexistent problem.
There would be dodges, such as buying used units.
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